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Council Minutes of 5-21-2019 organizations of which I am a member and if any Councilmembers would like to make a donation, I would be happy to accept that. Thank you Madame President. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Carl Savage 5772 Forest Ridge Drive Mr. Savage said he did a little research regarding the Cleveland Water Program and the program is 12 years old and there are 36+ communities participating in it. He said 36 communities don't participate if there is something wrong with it. He said 107 miles of pipeline needs to be replaced in the near future and about 20 miles in the next 10 years. He said at 1.5 million a mile, that's about $30 million dollars. He said North Olmsted is already paying into the program and other communities are benefiting from it. Mr. Savage said he would like to ask the councilmembers that are opposed where the City is going to come up with the money as it isn't in the budget. He would be opposed to asking taxpayers to pay for it as they are already paying into the program. He said the community can't pay to replace it all and he would support any help such as the Cleveland Water proposal to help pay for it. Mr. Savage said this is a good program for the City to be involved in. Aaron Campbell 6316 Brighton Drive Mr. Campbell says he has been in North Olmsted for 13 years. He said he had a chance to review the Cleveland Water proposal and believes it is a great opportunity to get some infrastructure investment. He believes the communities involved have benefited. Some of the communities that have only been involved for three years are receiving up to a million dollars a year in investments. He said he does not believe the City will need to wait 10 years to see a benefit from the deal. Mr. Campbell said the regional cooperation raised some skepticism at first, but after review it's also beneficial to the City as it's reciprocal. He said other communities can't come after businesses in town and he likes the idea of regional cooperation. He said he never liked the idea of communities giving tax abatements to steal business. Mr. Campbell says the scoring system for pipe replacement seems objective and works. He said he wanted to show support for the proposal. Paul Accordino 5780 Great Northern Boulevard Mr. Accordino said Council should support the Cleveland Water proposal. He said his profession is as a consultant for water and wastewater utility for communities, not Cleveland specifically, but Cincinnati and San Francisco. In putting in IT systems to track these assets, the City of Cleveland already has that so they know exactly every inch of every water pipeline underneath our City. This comes down to how to capital costs get handled. He said there is the fund ratepayers are paying on their water bills already. He thinks this is the time North Olmsted should tap into using those funds rather than generate or raise new funds in the future. Technology for water pipes is going to continue 11